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Thursday Night 'Lights: Which Characters Need a Shake Up?
This week, our favorite comedy block was in reruns. So instead of recaps, I’m singling out characters from each show who seem to be in a rut, and how they can get out of it.
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Pop Pedestal: Cleopatra Jones
Welcome back to Pop Pedestal, the blog series about pop culture personalities we admire. Today’s tribute goes to Cleopatra “Cleo” Jones, the super sleek superwoman who defied the blaxploitation genre of the early ’70s. Move over Foxy. Cleo’s in town.
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Miss Representation is on TV Tonight!
Set those DVRs, because Miss Representation airs tonight on OWN at 9/8 central! The film, which explores the representations of women in the media and politics, is a must-watch for anyone who consumes media or cares about women (... Read more »
Preacher's Daughter: Why Do We Have to Be "Born This Way"?
Yesterday, Republican Presidential hopeful Herman Cain clashed with Piers Morgan about whether or not people are born gay. Here’s the video:
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Sexual Inadequacy: Taylor Lautner and the Dreamboat Academy
The journalist is employing the old trope of queer sex as spectacle, the idea that queer people’s sexual lives are open for endless speculation, rumination, ridicule, and evaluation by the larger heterosexual population. This is the trade off of burgeoning queer acceptance. You get straight... Read more »
Bringing Up Baby: Why <em>Raising Hope</em> Gives Me Hope (and <em>Modern Family</em> Doesn't)
Babies on TV serve as props for their parent’s character development. On reality TV, babies are dreams come true and cute fashion accessories (for celebrity moms) or evidence of bad behavior (teen moms). On Dexter, toddler Harrison exists solely as a plot device to anchor daddy... Read more »
Preacher's Daughter: The Mountain Goats' John Darnielle and that Goddamn Rush of Adrenaline and Blood
So, Mountain Goats frontman John Darnielle, songwriter and poet laureate of the... Read more »
Bringing Up Baby: The Real Housemoms of Bravo TV
Something is happening over at Bravo. Previously, its reality TV programming was all about rich, gaudy, ambitious, tanned, shit-talking, table-throwing, materialistic socialites. Now, these same people have babies.
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Isn’t He Lovely: Do These Blue Jeans Make My Butt Look Gay?
The type of jeans a man slips on nevertheless seems to say a lot about how he projects his masculinity and sexuality.
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